For the past five weeks, I’ve been hanging out at TMI Sports Medicine in South Arlington for about an hour and a half twice a week. Those physical therapy sessions, combined with the work I’m doing at home, have all been part of the effort to get my right leg fully functioning after my middle-of-the-night … More Thanks to the help of a great (and funny) physical therapist, I’m well on my way back — but he’s moving on

Most of you know that our family recently adopted a sweet rescue Wheaten terrier puppy named Win-Win, who’s pretty much become the focus of our lives over the past month. You’re also aware she was at the center of my nasty 3 a.m. fall April 26 that resulted in a clean break of my right … More A longtime friend’s kindness and artistic talents gift us a painted treasure of our beloved, departed pup Maisy

Doggone it!!! I’m writing to you from the caregiving halls of Methodist Mansfield hospital, where I’ve been encamped since some nice paramedics brought me here about 4 a.m. Friday. You all know how long-winded I am, so I’m sorry in advance. But I’ll quickly get to what we called the nut graf in my former … More A femur broken, a puppy safe, lessons learned at 3 a.m. in a darkened house

Kay and I spent the best evening with the sweetest lady Tuesday. We hadn’t seen Melissa Brown since the frenzied, socially distanced 2020 pandemic year, so we were way past overdue for a visit. After I finished work at home, Kay and I picked up a delicious Big Brother pizza at i Fratelli’s in SW … More Spending a wonderful, long-overdue evening with Melissa, the wife of my dearly departed best friend

We said tearful goodbyes Friday at the vet’s office to our wonderful, loyal, loving Maisy, the terrier mix who adopted us 15-plus years ago as a rescue from the Richardson Humane Society. Maisy joined our Arlington family well into adulthood at about 3 years old on January 31, 2009, and we gave her the best … More Goodbye to sweet Maisy, who came to us as an adult and, amazingly, gave us bountiful, beautiful love for 15 years

When she was in her early 20s in the early 1940s, before any of her four children were born, my beautiful birth mother Betty Campbell Workman Cazad posed for these two epic photos taken by my birth father Bob Workman. Never could I have imagined I’d lay eyes on pictures of Betty holding a shotgun … More I can never see enough old photos of my birth family — and these priceless images of Betty make me so happy

Sending buckets (the kind he used to sink on the basketball court in his younger days) of love and happy birthday wishes in heaven to my dearly missed dad Clark Lindsay Christlieb, who would’ve turned 94 today. To celebrate, I’m posting a couple of photos from my childhood that I don’t remember us taking and … More Happy birthday in heaven to an awesome Dad, with a couple of 50-year-old family photos to mark the occasion

Sixty-three years ago this week, a smart, handsome, athletic teenager named Crys Workman turned 17. He and his family were from Huntington, West Virginia, but on his birthday Feb. 28, 1961, Crys was near the end of several months living in nearby Ironton, Ohio, where he attended school and played basketball as a junior for … More Another big day for the birthday brothers, as one hits a milestone and the “baby” hopes to celebrate with him — if COVID doesn’t stop us